You're watching French workers storming the Stock Exchange at Paris right now. Attacking the heart of the capitalist machine. Emmanuel Macron be very afraid. This is what an uprising looks like. #revolution #Paris #antireportpic.twitter.com/PuxdLAt681— GhostofDurruti (@DurrutiRising) April 20, 2023
Also their national anthem isn't about how nice france is like most national anthems, it's about doing revolution. The national identity of the frenchman is revolution.
Arise, children of the Fatherland
Our day of glory has arrived
Against us the bloody flag of tyranny
is raised; the bloody flag is raised.
Do you hear, in the countryside
The roar of those ferocious soldiers?
They’re coming right into your arms
To cut the throats of your sons, your comrades!
To arms, citizens!
Form your battalions
Let’s march, let’s march
That their impure blood
Should water our fields.
for some reason this song, the internationale and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%BCder,_zur_Sonne,_zur_Freiheit (hungarian version) have morphed into one vague revolutionary song in my brain.
dunno why, it happened when i was a child i think, when i only had vague ideas about any of this.
It is really odd for a national anthem. It's not the best thing to encourage revolution as part of your national character if you don't want revolution to occur. A serious oversight by the ruling class that can't be corrected.
Well the people who set up new orders are usually on board with a society that continues to change dramatically and don't see themselves as the end point. If you were building a new revolutionary government, one of the best checks against stagnation and backsliding is establishing an expectation that the people will need to do another revolution at some point down the line. Any good student of revolutionary history will see that (with a few exceptions) only the revolution itself achieves progressive gains.
Why are the French proletariat so much cooler than the rest of the "West"
It is the home of the first proletarian revolution :communard:
They have a lot of experience. They got 4 revolutions on their resume, plus May '68
They are organised.
Also their national anthem isn't about how nice france is like most national anthems, it's about doing revolution. The national identity of the frenchman is revolution.
for some reason this song, the internationale and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%BCder,_zur_Sonne,_zur_Freiheit (hungarian version) have morphed into one vague revolutionary song in my brain.
dunno why, it happened when i was a child i think, when i only had vague ideas about any of this.
The Internationale was originally to the tune of Le Marseillaise, but later got its own music.
Marchons, marchons!
It is really odd for a national anthem. It's not the best thing to encourage revolution as part of your national character if you don't want revolution to occur. A serious oversight by the ruling class that can't be corrected.
Well the people who set up new orders are usually on board with a society that continues to change dramatically and don't see themselves as the end point. If you were building a new revolutionary government, one of the best checks against stagnation and backsliding is establishing an expectation that the people will need to do another revolution at some point down the line. Any good student of revolutionary history will see that (with a few exceptions) only the revolution itself achieves progressive gains.
The Chad Guillotine culture vs the virgin "western" culture